On Tue, Oct 29, 2002 at 03:06:51AM -0700, Luke Palmer wrote: > Superpositions will turn out to be unimaginably handy, possibly used > in 10% or 15% of the code, so they get shorter names.
Statements like this bother me. Not because I don't think it might be true, but because it's in future tense. If someone (named Damian :-) wrote a superposition synopsis that showed the many and varied uses of superpositions in contexts that ordinary programmers can relate to, it would bother me less when people make claims about the usefulness of superpositions. I mean, if superpositions are so useful, who's using them now? How many modules on CPAN require them? Why hasn't the word spread like wildfire about them such that your average sysadmin is using them in his code? I don't know of anyone using superpositions casually or in production code. > In my mind, Perl is stepping away from being a direct derivative of C; > rather, a derivative of Perl. And it doesn't seem that the bitwise > ops are used enough anymore to get a single character. If they get a > single character, surely =~ (~~) should have one. I agree. -Scott -- Jonathan Scott Duff [EMAIL PROTECTED]
